Director, Reproductive and Medical Genetics
Montefiore Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Albert Einsein College of Medicine
SCARSDALE, New York, United States
Dr Susan Klugman is the Director of the Division of Reproductive Genetics at Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine. She is also the Program Director for the Clinical Genetics Residency. She is a Professor of both Obstetrics & Gynecology and Women’s Health and a Professor of Pediatrics and is Board Certified in both Obstetrics and Gynecology and Clinical Genetics. She graduated from Cornell University and from NYU School of Medicine.
Dr. Klugman divides her time between her clinical practice (primarily related to prenatal and cancer genetics) and teaching and administrative duties. She has participated in multiple local and national clinical trials and coauthored over 50 peer-reviewed publications and chapters.In addition she is a co-author of multiple national guidelines. She is a mentor for many high school, college and medical students and helped many of them publish peer-reviewed articles. Dr. Klugman is a known community lecturer/educator and has appeared on several national television news programs, on topics relating to prenatal and cancer genetics.
Dr. Klugman is currently the President of the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics (ACMG), where she previously served as VP for Clinical Genetics. She served on American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologist’s Committee on Genetics and is a current member of District II's (NY) legislative committee. In 2018 she was the recipient of ACOG’s Dr John McCain Advocacy Fellowship, which allowed her to spend several weeks in Washington DC in 2018 working with the governmental affairs team. She previously served on the residency review committee for medical genetics for the Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) and currently represents ACMG in the American Medical Association (AMA) House of Delegates.
Saturday, May 18, 2024
8:00 AM – 9:00 AM PDT